luvbuffalo wrote:

No luck so far.
Booted to Safe Mode, removed ZA

Good

then clicked start/run/msconfig &
checked the normal startup button & rebooted:

Why? What did you have that was checked and why? It is quite normal to
have Selective startup checked with "Load startup group items" checked but
greyed. This simply indicates that the user has an unchecked entry in
MSConfig | Startup however the system still boots in Normal Mode but just
doesn't load the unchecked entry. For example many users including myself
have the PCHealth entry unchecked (this relates to the PCHealth Scheduler
for data collection and has nothing to do with System Restore).

How do you usually boot to Normal Mode? To do so shouldn't require any
editing of MSConfig.

Display still looks like it does when it is in safe mode

Are you saying that it has Safe Mode written in each corner of the
desktop? If not then the problem is down to your probably needing to
reinstall your video drivers.

Error message Problem w/ shortcut "mount safe & sound volumes.lnk"

Probably a result of running with a nine month old copy of the registry
and that in the last nine months or so you have deleted the target for
this shortcut which is probably located in the windows\start
menu\programs\startup folder. A trivial problem that can be easily
resolved by removing the non functioning shortcut or unchecking the entry
in MSConfig | Startup

clicked ok Error message "Freedom has caused an error in
kernel32.dll" (Freedom is Adelphia's antivirus/antispyware program)
clicked ok

Again probably the result of running a nine month old copy of the
registry.

No mouse capabilities

Is this in Safe Mode or Normal Mode? Is this a USB mouse? If so this
won't normally work in Safe Mode unless you have selected legacy usb
support in the system bios.

I used tab button to get to start/run/msconfig and chose selective
start

Which, of course has nothing to do with running Safe Mode.

and selected win.ini & load static VxD rebooted back to safe
mode

How?

uninstalled Freedom, then rebooted, can't get it working with
normal startup

As I have repeatedly said with a nine month old copy of the registry I'm
not surprised you system does not work.

I have no system restore points to select other than from this past
week which are all problem points. Cannot boot to normal

Odd, I thought a few lines above you were saying that you could boot to
Normal Mode.

Looks like I might have to try to do a clean re-install.

Indeed.
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Mike Maltby